Nau mai te Raumati
Welcome to summer

• The NZNO library will be closed from 5pm – 20 December 2024. 
• We will reopen on 6 January 2024 and look forward to answering your information queries.
   
• Members can access online databases and journals 24/7 from this page on the NZNO website.
  https://www.nzno.org.nz/resources/library/online_databases
  Log in with your membership number and your chosen password

On this page:

• Research assistance
• Open access NZ health journals
• Searching for a NZ thesis
• Tips for students
• Useful resources

Research assistance

The NZNO library offers assistance to current NZNO members. We can provide books, journal articles, health and nursing publications, RCN & ICN documents, links to useful websites and references to other material.

To make a request use the NZNO Library Enquiry form on this page or email library@nzno.org.nz

When you make a request please tell us:

• Your email address and contact phone number(s)
• Your topic request
• How the information will be used e.g. a presentation to staff
• What information you already have
• When you need the information by
• Any other limits e.g. only New Zealand articles
• Currency of material required e.g. only articles written within the last 5 years.

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Open access NZ health journals

The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health (ANZJPH)

This journal is concerned with public health issues. The research reported includes formal epidemiological inquiries into the correlates and causes of diseases and health-related behaviour, analyses of public policy affecting health and disease, and detailed studies of the cultures and social structures within which health and illness exist.

• View the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Emergency Nurse New Zealand Journal

• College of Emergency Nurses (New Zealand) CENNZ - NZNO: Published 3 times a year
• View or download PDFs of Emergency Nurse NZ

L.O.G.I.C: The official journal of the College of Primary Health Care Nurses, NZNO

• Published four times per year in March, June, September and December
• View or download PDFs of the L.O.G.I.C Journal, from April 2016

Journal of Primary Health Care (JPHC)

• Published quarterly: March, June, September and December
• By CSIRO Publishing on behalf of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners (RNZCGP)
• View the Journal of Primary Health Care

New Zealand Medical Journal Journal

The New Zealand Medical Journal (NZMJ) is the principal scientific journal for the medical profession in New Zealand. The Journal has become a fundamental resource for providing research and written pieces from the health and medical industry.
Open-access after registering an email address and creating a password.

• View the New Zealand Medical Journal

Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand

The Journal is an official publication of the College of Nurses Aotearoa (NZ), a professional organisation of New Zealand nurses, which includes Nurse Practitioners New Zealand (NPNZ)

• View Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand
• View College of Nurses Aotearoa (NZ)

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Searching for a NZ thesis

• NZ Research Repository - New Zealand's most comprehensive selection of research papers and related resources.

• Massey Research Online - contains research theses and research outputs including published work by Massey University students and academic staff as well as peer-reviewed material not published elsewhere. Items in Massey Research Online are fully indexed and searchable on Google Scholar and NZ Research.

• Victoria University - Graduate School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health

• University of Auckland Research Repository ResearchSpace - An online archive for the University of Auckland which contains Full Text Theses and other research outputs.

• University of Auckland - School of Nursing - Key Research
  There are eight key research interests. Click each staff member's name to find out more about their research and expertise.

• Theses held by the NZNO Library

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Tips for students

• Consult your course text and supplementary course material
• Search your institution's library catalogue and online databases such as Ebsco (CINAHL)
• Approach the institution's library reference staff for training and guidance
• Search online journals/databases on the NZNO website

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Useful resources

• ICN publications
• Ministry of Health publications
• The New Zealand Nursing Education and Research Foundation (NERF) oral history project is a list of oral history interviews held at Alexander Turnbull Library
• Nursing Council of New Zealand publications
• The NZ Nursing Research Index (Database) is open access and available to all. It includes published and unpublished research that has been undertaken by New Zealand nurses which is concerned with the practice of nursing, nursing education, nursing policy or nursing management from January 1999 to today. Search the NZ Nursing Research Index
• NZNO publications
• Royal College of Nursing (RCN) publications

In their hospital library, members employed by a DHB can find up-to-date and reliable sources of information; relevant to their clinical, management, educational and research needs 

Organisations such as the Heart Foundation, Cancer Society, Diabetes NZ may also be able to provide you with information.

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